Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 213
Chapter Fourteen—A Paramount Prophecy 213 But these investigators could not be expected to discover the truth, hidden under a thousand coverings of darkness. It was the work of God who saw from the heavens that man-worship, over- stepping all limits, had spread over the world and that the wor- ship of the Cross and of the supposed sacrifice of a human being had alienated many millions of people from the True God whose jealousy sent to the world a servant of His in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, to break the creed of the Cross. In accordance with the ancient promise, therefore, he appeared as the Promised Messiah. Then came the time for the breaking of the Cross, i. e. , the time when the error of the creed of the Cross was to be made plain. The idea of Jesus going up to Heaven, though it was an error, had, nev- ertheless, a secret. The Messianic reality had been forgotten and had gone out of existence, even as a corpse is eaten up by the earth of the grave. This Messianic reality was believed to be in existence in the heavens in the corporeal form of human being. It was inev- itable, therefore, that this reality should descend to the earth in the Latter Days. So it has descended to the earth in this age in the shape of a living human being, and it has broken the Cross. Do not think therefore, that I have come with a sword. No, I have come to put all swords back into their scabbards. The world has been fighting a good deal in darkness. Many a man has attacked his true well-wishers, wounded the hearts of sympathetic friends, and injured his dear ones, but now the darkness is no more. Night is gone and the day is come and blessed is he who remains deprived no longer. Thus has been fulfilled what was prophesied by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace and the blessings of God be upon him) nearly 1,350 years ago, that the Promised Messiah would